May 2, 2013
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2,000 Netflix Movies Set to Disappear Today About 2,000 movies from Warner Bros., MGM, and Universal are set to disappear from Netflix’s list of classic films today, May 1 as a result of the company’s new classic film repository. Some of the movies that will disappear include two classic Billy Wilder films, Kiss Me, Stupid (1964) and One, Two, Three (1961), Dr
Paying customers at online and DVD rental company Quickflix dropped 5 per cent to 113,036 in the March quarter.
Ken Loach’s impassioned love letter to Nye Bevan, the NHS and the welfare state has been given more relevance by the recent demise of the villain of the piece, the Iron Lady. Â Â Â Â
The Coen brothers’ first masterpiece, their neo-noir 1983 debut (above), relies on its lead characters explaining diddly-squat to each other.
Why isn’t everyone yelling from the rooftops about this excellent Channel 4 sitcom? It starts sedately – and The Mimic’s pacing remains gentle throughout – but persist and you’ll reap rich comic rewards.    Â
Today’s mashup you didn’t know you wanted comes courtesy of a tumblr blog called Google Street Scene , where stills from famous movies are transformed into Google Street View images. See if you can guess each movie from the photos below, and see if you guessed right at the bottom. Check out many, many more images here
Kristin Scott Thomas and Ludivine Sagnier; sex and murder; swanky Parisian boardrooms and bedrooms. Sounds enticing, doesn’t it? Â Â Â Â
joss Whedon’s perky series about wisecracking, renegade space cowboys, operating 500 years in the future, might have infamously been axed in 2002, but since then Firefly (above) has become the definitive cult success, spawning a terrific film, Serenity, and topping numerous lists for best sci-fi series.